Take a look at 20 delightful and cheeky photos by budding young creatives, aged 3 to 12.
I spend a lot of time with my Auntie and Uncle who live just around the corner from me. Here is a picture of them outside Pacific Square.
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Location: Maroubra
Age category: 3-7
I took this photo when we went on holidays to Mudgee. We went on a walk and I liked this artwork of a Big Foot in the middle of a vineyard.
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Location: Mudgee
Age category: 3-7
There is this library and it has some pods. I like the yellow one but before I could reach it someone took it. There was a grown-up in the yellow pod reading a kid's book. Her friend was trying to take a photo of her.
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Location: Green Square Library
Age category: 3-7
I like the colourful rainbow steps. My grumpy cat is a Gacha Gacha toy (which is a Japanese vending machine toy we bought at Regent Place in the city).
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Location: South Eveleigh
Age category: 3-7
Zali is my baby sister and I love her. I love her rainbows and I make her laugh when I show her my ponies in the morning. She always wakes up before me.
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Location: Coogee
Age category: 3-7
My brother is 6 weeks old. I was born in Europe, and he was born in Sydney. Today I fell in school, then the doctor helped me. Now I’m home, my brother is hungry and my mum is tired, but I think being home with them is very joyful.
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Location: Summer Hill
Age category: 3-7
When my Dad volunteers to photograph the Cooks River parkrun I sometimes go with him, and he lends me a camera. On this rainy day, one runner was faster than everybody else and he looks like he is floating in my picture.
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Location: Cooks River
Age category: 3-7
My brother thought the telescope was a camera and tried to take a picture of my Pop. He was saying "Say cheese Pops!" I thought I would take a photo because it was pretty funny!
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Location: Quakers Hill
Age category: 3-7
I took this photo because I couldn't believe the size of the larger strawberry. It was as big as my palm. These strawberries remind me of me and my little brother. I love strawberries and I love my brother.
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Location: Seven Hills
Age category: 3-7
I put them on the log at the beach.
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Location: Bluey’s Beach
Age category: 3-7
This is my puppy, he is super stylish, all dressed for a chilly day.
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Location: Beecroft
Age category: 8-12
The city looks spooky with the fog.
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Location: Under the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Age category: 8-12
The object stands on its own, without any company. But a shadow comes along, and when they connect, they make a beautiful shape.
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Location: Surry Hills
Age category: 8-12
Modern life made many of us feel more isolated than is healthy. Then the world went into lockdown; the age of loneliness turned bad. However, not all relationships struggled; the Sydney Newspaper made a return as Sydneysiders decided to take some time to embrace the value of the paper news.
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Location: Sydney
Age category: 8-12
Laura took this photo as part of a series of soap bubbles on a grey afternoon in the local park while playing with her 2 sisters. Photography became a passion of hers during lockdown and homeschooling.
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Location: Easton Park, Rozelle
Age category: 8-12
My little 1-year-old brother was playing with the toys in the toy room and then suddenly he crawled into the middle of my Hot Wheel race track.
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Location: Strathfield
Age category: 8-12
This is a sunflower from my backyard, it grew from a seed that actually fell out from a bird feeder where Lorikeets visit.
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Location: Naraweena
Age category: 8-12
This is my little brother, Jacob, joining daddy, mummy and I for the sunrise shots in January. It was a busy morning, many people were there surfing, swimming. Jacob was taking a shot of the sun when I took this.
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Location: Tamarama Beach
Age category: 8-12
My local and overseas souvenirs collection. They bring me back lots of memories.
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Location: Toongabbie
Age category: 8-12
We Went out for dinner, put a coin in the Wishing Well and decided to take this image of the water shooting up from the fountain. I edited the photo, and added a line to show the sun’s reflection.
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Location: Bossley Park
Age category: 8-12
Each year we ask Sydney’s junior creatives to go adventuring, camera in hand, and send us their favourite pics.
Little Sydney Lives is part of our Art & About program, a year round series of temporary art projects in unusual spaces.
Published 2 August 2021
